heartbleed bug. when all the net security people are freaking out, it’s probably an okay time to...
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A serious bug in OpenSSL — a library that is used to secure a very, very large percentage of the Internet’s traffic — was yesterday discovered and publicly disclosed
The apps you use, the sites you visit; if they encrypt the data they send back and forth, there’s a good chance they use OpenSSL
This means an attacker could get a server to spit out its secret keys, allowing them to read any communication that they intercept, like it wasn’t encrypted it all …
including the keys it uses to encrypt and decrypt communication (e.g. usernames, passwords, credit cards, etc.)
•Flair for drama?•Tor says “You might want to stay away from the Internet entirely for the next few days while things settle.”